It would be cool if the site owner made the site available in other languages, for example, Portuguese (even if translated by google translator), I'm Brazilian and I can say that the Brazilian market for indie games is extremely giant and here would be the perfect site (if translated) for developers to test their games. Well ... it's just a suggestion.
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Become MZ1600, a robot trapped in a grueling and misty maze!
Use the arrow keys to move around and seek out keys and exits to advance.
Travel through 5 mazes on your path to directional mastery!
Please post your best time and find the hidden easter egg!
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I am an idiot that needs to move on to BGM stuff, basic AI, and update code. Still got a fair amount of coding on all of my projects to do, and for some reason, I've recently been jamming out a PICO-8 demake of Spiral Knights, or at least the base stuff of it. Don't know if I'll ever get the online multiplayer aspect of it, but the semi-random Zeldalike quality of the game is more than enough to make fun. Sprites and a fair chunk of map data done, code isn't even started yet.
Infinitroid has been a great inspiration to simplify and revisit Gentroid, where now instead of having code try to write a Super Metroidy world, has really been simplified to a handful of environments that are mostly horizontal in nature with isolated elevator rooms, item rooms, and maybe miniboss rooms. And now that I've learned you can recolor/tint sprites, I've revised many of the repeated items to make more creatures. All in due time, I suppose...
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My first pico-8 game, a galaga/space invaders type space shooter. Quite unfinished but technically has a complete game loop. please don't look at the code it's so bad you will want to die
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I finally got time to play with Pico-8 so here is my first game. It's a purple chicken because I'm some guy who draws chickens on the internet. It's my gimmick. It's a pretty standard maze game. Don't run into the enemies. Get to the goal and go to the next stage.
I notices a glitch where I could walk through the moving enemies since I didn't made a proper collision check, but I thought it was neat so I just made a sound effect when it happened instead of fixing it. I think you only have to do it once to get everything.
I'm sure there's problems with this, but I wanted to finish something before I started acting ambitious.
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Hi, I emailed the support address back in July but received no answer, so apologies for taking up space with this request in the forum.
I purchased Voxatron as part of a Humble Bundle way back in 2014, which also included a license for the PICO-8 console. While the Bundle account link for Voxatron works just fine, I no longer can access PICO-8 because I switched email providers in January 2017, so requesting a download link email does me no good (I want to install it on a new computer I just built). Would it be possible to update my current account information and replace my old email address with my current one? For what it's worth, I still have my activation key for Voxatron.
If it's do-able, I'd prefer to take this discussion off-forum since I'd rather not give out my email address publicly :) .
Thanks!
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At the end of my Intro to Game Dev course. And this is the submission of my final version for the course.
Halfway through CIS102. Here is what has been accomplished to date. It is an offshoot of the game breakout.
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Hey!
I'm trying to install Pico-8 onto my chromebook. I'm on the dev branch and have the linux beta enabled and downloaded the files. But I can not get them to install using command "sudo apt-get install pico-8";is this the wrong command?
Cheers,
Sam
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No it's not.
Have you ever wondered what kind of clock Lexaloffle is using ?
It's been 8-hours since my last post yet I can still bring up the forum and see posts that say to the side my alias and, "Just now."
What gives ?
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I’m going to refer to them as chinese characters because it makes more sense. Of course this all applies to Kanji.
So I’ve been itching to make a game with chinese characters and I know many of you want Japan Kanji for your Japanese styled games. Kanji and Chinese aren’t new to pico-8. But almost every use of chinese characters are put into the sprite sheet. I think it’s obvious that won’t work for most people since you can’t use any other sprites or the map.
So I’ve been working on a horrible compression system to get vectors of radicals and work on combining radicals into hodgepodged characters. If you didn’t know, chinese characters are often made of smaller radicals (which usually function as their own characters too)
For example: 好 meaning “good”, “nice”, etc.. . The character is made of two smaller characters: 女 “woman” and 子 “child”. My goal is to make the radicals as vector shapes and combine them into various characters. I’ve gotten the radicals down to strings, with 0-9 letters representing cordinates which will need to be changed to base 64 by using the letters, glyphs, numbers, and two other symbols which I haven’t figured out but should be fine. Then I need to get a function to read some variable of where to put and size each radical. I think that when someone would want to use this system they shouldn’t have a respiratory of 2,000 to 8,000 characters and instead pick and grab some for their use.
So if you read my worthless plan I want to know what am I missing or what am I doing that is horrible? I will post a demo soon once I got the placement function down. If you ask me I got about half way with it all in about a day excluding adding the many characters and radicals which might just take forever. I should probably wait to post but I know something in my plan must be bad.
Edit: Here’s the Wikipedia article on radicals: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_(Chinese_characters)
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